The State Board shall develop guidelines for local boards to use to create assessment teams. A local board shall assign an assessment team to every low-performing school in the local school administrative unit that has not received an assistance team. Local boards shall ensure that assessment team members are trained in the proper administration of the employee evaluation used by the local school administrative unit. If service on an assessment team is an additional duty for an employee of a local board, the board may pay the employee for that additional work.

Assessment teams shall have the following duties:

(1) Conduct evaluations of licensed employees in low-performing schools;

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Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 115C-334

  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Local school administrative unit: means a subdivision of the public school system which is governed by a local board of education. See North Carolina General Statutes 115C-5
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3

(2) Provide technical assistance and training to principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and superintendents’ designees who conduct evaluations of licensed employees;

(3) Develop mandatory improvement plans for licensed employees; and

(4) Assist principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and superintendents’ designees in the development and implementation of mandatory improvement plans. (1998-5, s. 4; 2011-348, s. 7.)